Fashion boutique supplants the Space at Alice Three years ago, developer Cornish Associates and the Arts & Business Council of Rhode Island partnered to open the Space at Alice at 186 Union St., a venue for monthly, professionally curated exhibits designed to unite artists, collectors, and visitors interested in Providence’s contemporary visual art scene.

Dodging death Even the sweetest life can shatter in an instant, sending you through the looking glass like Alice. For the euphoric heroine of Craig Lucas's 1988 fable of holiday festivity and arbitrary mayhem, Reckless the moment of reckoning comes when her husband tearfully confesses, on Christmas Eve, that he has taken out a contract on her life.